Turk 182
Director: Bob Clark
Year Released: 1985
Rating: 1.0
After his firefighter brother Terry (Robert Urich) is injured while saving a little girl from a fire and denied benefits (because he was off-duty and intoxicated at the time), Jimmy (Timothy Hutton) turns himself into a graffiti artist and starts harassing the typically corrupt Mayor (Robert Culp) by interrupting his big presentations ... and when he's not doing that, he's going on dates with Terry's social worker Danny (Kim Cattrall). If this description sounds even slightly coherent, then I did a better job than the three individuals credited with writing this sloppy and dimwitted "comedy-drama" (that isn't remotely funny), which somehow believes a young bloke who puts his street tag up ("Turk 182") around a major city can "Bring Down the Man," and it finishes up with a completely idiotic final "display" by Jimmy, which involves dangling from the Queensboro Bridge. Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of culture jamming - every new work by Banksy draws attention and commentary - and wish there was more of it (especially now in 2025, four decades after its original release), except this isn't the sort of movie that inspires activism.